Employment Law
Employment Law for Employees
We pride ourselves on providing expert advice to employees and individuals to resolve all types of employment and discrimination issues. For advice on any kind of dispute, please call our legal advisers on 00350 200 60481.
Our employment practice provides clear advice to you. We provide a full range of assistance from one-off interviews through to representation at the Employment Tribunal.
We work to ensure that you are aware of your legal rights and your employer’s obligations in the workplace and advise on a wide range of employment issues. We believe that no problem is too small to discuss and the impact of this is to assist you with asserting your rights raising any concerns that you have at the right time and in the right way. This approach maximizes the impact and aims to prevent problems continuing at an early stage and ensures your employer adheres to current employment law practices. In this way we reduce the risk of an employer acting in breach of employment legislation.
Our practice involves providing advice and assistance in relation to the following areas:
- breach of contract issues
- bullying and harassment
- contracts of employment and service agreements
- constructive or unfair dismissal
- discrimination claims
- disciplinary issues and dismissals
- employment disputes and employment tribunal representation
- grievance issues
- health and safety issues
- holidays
- ill health and sickness absence and dismissals
- maternity and parental rights
- redundancy advice
- restrictive covenants and breach of contract disputes
- settlement agreements
- TUPE advice
- unfair dismissal
- unpaid wages
- whistleblowing
- victimization
For further advice in relation to any of the above issues contact us.
Employment solutions for employers
Our employment practice provides clear and pragmatic advice for your employment needs. We cover a full range of legal solutions from initial instructions through to representation at the Employment Tribunal.
We work to complement your work whether this is with your in-house team or dealing directly with you and your management. We advise on a wide a range of HR and employment issues. We believe that no problem is too small to discuss. The impact of this is to head off potential problems at an early stage to ensure adherence to current employment law practices.
In this way we reduce the risk of acting in breach of employment legislation and provide a safety net and peace of mind to you as an employer.
Fixed Fees and Retainer
Keeping up to date with the ever changing field of employment law can be difficult for many employers. While they may want to do the right thing, knowing what that is at the time any decision needs to be made can prove a problem. Litigaid Law are here to help in such situations. We believe in developing on-going relationships with employer clients and annual packages are offered to cover the ad-hoc advice that may be needed from time to time. There are two options on offer:
Option 1
General Employment Advice File – This works on a pay as you go basis. If an employer does not need our advice then there will be no bill. If they do need advice then we will charge a monthly basis for the work that has been undertaken. Charges are based on a consolidated hourly rate.
Option 2
Annual Employment Retainer File – The fixed monthly fee calculated by assessing previous activity with the client and looking at the number of employees to be covered. This is a 12 month retainer contract. Where the client is new to us we will talk about any issues the employer may have had with employees in the past few years in order to gauge the appropriate level to charge for the retainer.
As with option 1, this file covers the day to day employment law advice an employer may need (either by phone, email or face to face) and a review, if requested, of the employer’s contracts of employment and any handbook, policies or procedures.
There are certain matters excluded from the General Employment Advice File and Annual Employment Retainer File. These are:
- Defending any claim bought against the employer in an Employment Tribunal or Court.
- Drafting any contracts, handbooks, policies and procedures.
- Preparing or advising on a Settlement Agreement.
- Advising in excess of four hours in respect of one issue.
